I'm a newb and just bought a 1040st, i've been playing with it a bit with some old disks for the system. Every time I'm prompted to enter a second disk and press a key, I switch disks but pressing a key does nothing. The system is essentially halted at the insert disk prompt. Is there something obvious I'm missing?

It actually might be the drive that TOS is failing to detect media change. If nothing at all happens when you change the disk (the drive's led doesn't even turn on), then it can't be the disk, at least not the second one.

ijor wrote:It actually might be the drive that TOS is failing to detect media change. If nothing at all happens when you change the disk (the drive's led doesn't even turn on), then it can't be the disk, at least not the second one.

I think this is right. I can hear the slide pull back when the disk is inserted but there isn’t much more activity. How would I go about verifying this and repairing?